I prefer the "old" system settings layout however as the "groupings" were more 'sensible' to my way of thinking.

Point in case there are now two or three (if you have kde-config-gtk-style installed) places to customise the appearance of your "desktop" & "applications"

Also the new monochrome icons while nice introduce visual inconsistancies to the system tray (the tooltip icons don't follow suit).

Not to mention the use of a pair of scissors to 'represent' the klipboard. Scissors = cut in my book and thus does not represent the full functionality of the the klipboard.

Cheers.

blackhole

Post subject:Posted: 03.04.2011, 10:44

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Can you all check akonadi? Please hit button "test" on akonadi configuration. Do you have some errors?

arwa

Post subject:Posted: 03.04.2011, 19:36

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I have now upgraded to KDE4.6.1 from KDE4.4.5. I had to download about "1 dot 21 jigabytes" (with all these dbg packages that I have installed). Everything went smooth. Only kappfinder and one akonadi-library was removed.

The dist-upgrade just asked when installing the new kdm if it should install the new kdmrc. I alowed it to make sure, everything fits together.

The only kde package that is held back is kdepim-runtime-dbg. If I try to install it, the package kdepim-dbg would be removed. This seems not correct somehow!?

When starting kdm it asked me to choose annother session type, because "kde" does not exist anymore?! I did choose the "KDE plasma workspace" IIRC and KDE did start fine.

My first impression: WOW how fast it is! I currently am using the nouveau driver with my GeForce 6200 card. Moving a window with the whole content displayed was _very_ slow before. Now it moves like when just displaying the window border while moving. Also konqueror is much faster. Really cool.

And the akonadi control error log has 22 errors of the type 'void AgentManager::readPluginInfos(const QDir&) Duplicated agent identifier "akonadi_vcard_resource" from file "/usr/share/akonadi/agents/vcardresource.desktop"' with different agent identifiers like "akonadi_mbox_resource", "akonadi_kcal_resource" and so on.

As I do not yet use akonadi I do not know how problematic this is.

arwa

Post subject:Posted: 03.04.2011, 20:42

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One problem I had was that Ctrl+Alt+v did not open the klipper menu anymore. The hotkey is no longer configured in klipper but in the systray settings. There was this hotkey correctly defined. I had to remove and redefine it. Now it works again.

DeepDayze

Post subject:Posted: 03.04.2011, 21:50

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maybe the akonadi databases need rebuilding due to the upgrade? Think there was an article on it with some fixes/workarounds when issues with akonadi databases occurred on an older KDE4 release.

blackhole

Post subject:Posted: 03.04.2011, 23:51

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Yes, I have tried rebuilding deleting the akonadi directories in /home/user/.local/share and /home/user/.config.
(I was lucky that I had a backup of agenda and contacts...)